That a people, pale, thin, bent, whose movements had become listless under the lash of hunger, could have been stirred into enthusiasm by the appearance of a khaki coat, that they could throw off the lethargy which comes of acute want, was only to be accounted for by the existence of a profound belief that we had been sent to deliver them.

to some fleeting moments of occasional solitary devotion, A correspondence, opening with you, has roused me a little from my lethargy and made me conscious of existence.

She sank into a condition of lethargy.

For four-and-twenty hours he continued in a state of lethargy, with the rattles occasionally in his throat.

He spoke brutally; he wanted to rouse her from her lethargy, to pierce somehow that dreadful calm.

And here he stays, striving in vain to bring the tumult of his thoughts to some coherent shape, until from sheer exhaustion he falls into a kind of lethargy of sleep.

One day as we were standing in the shade of the garden wall, sick and weary with dejection and disappointment, Dawson, of a sudden, starts me from my lethargy by clutching my arm and raising his finger to bid me listen and be silent.

The sight of land seemed to stir the sallow-faced giant out of the lethargy that had gripped him on the way down from Levuka.

And with it, faint and terrible, came the man-smell! Thor roused himself with a sudden growl from the lethargy into which he had momentarily allowed himself to sink.

The Occasion of this seems to be the Want of some necessary Employment, to put the Spirits in Motion, and awaken them out of their Lethargy.

You thought me sunk in lethargy, too deeply drugged with sleep To notice how your armored fleets kept creeping o'er the deep, Too indolent to organize, too feeble to resist, Too timid to return the blow of Europe's mailèd fist; And Asia's conquest seemed to you a matter of such ease That all your kings knew perfectly the part which each would seize.

He quitted these countries, pitying in his verses the misery of the Greeks, blaming their lethargy, and despising their stupid submission; so difficult is it to know a nation by a rapid glance.

No doubt his tired mind had fallen into lethargy, from which a sudden fear had roughly awakened him.

The dance ended amid applause and the audience now really aroused from its lethargy eagerly awaited the next rise of the curtain.

His face was dull, heavy, unemotional, but I said in sprightly tones to coax his lethargy: "I have made such a delicious discovery to-day.

Henrietta's income had expanded from four thousand a year to twenty; and she spent her days in thinking of and talking of the careers to which she could help her husband if he would only shake off the lethargy which seized him the year after his marriage to a Fuller heiress.

Knowing now the frightful blunders committed at the outset, and the hair's-breadth escape from tremendous tragedy, the miracle of the sudden awakening which enabled France to shake off her lethargy and her vanity, and to make a tiger's pounce upon an enemy which had almost brought her to her knees is one of the splendid things in the world's history which wipe out all rankling criticism.

With a last bold effort to rouse the President from his lethargy, he demanded, in the Cabinet meeting of the 13th, that the forts should be strengthened.

The unmarked days have slipped into the fast-flying weeks, and they into the months; till, suddenly, as from a lethargy, the North arouses itself to greet the first unfailing herald of springthe Dog Races of Nome.

For the first time Louis XV. seemed to awake from the midst of that life of intellectual lethargy and physical activity which he allowed to glide along, without a thought, between the pleasures of the chase and the amusements invented by his favorite; a remembrance of Louis XIV. came across his mind, naturally acute and judicious as it was.

"Poland must be left in her lethargy," he had said to the Russian ambassador Saldern.

I cleaned and put away the syringe, washed the tube, and then, returning to the bedside, endeavoured to rouse the patient from his profound lethargy.

Oh, for my sake, yield not to despair; shake off this lethargy, and prove to the whole world that they have wronged you, that the fame of Arthur Myrvin is as stainless as his name.

She implored me, with almost frantic wildness, to obtain justice from the cruel villainaccusing him by name, and bringing forward so many proofs, which the lethargy of grief had before concealed, that I cannot doubt for one moment who is the father of that poor babethe cruel, the heartless destroyer of innocence and life.

The glance of the silent youth roused Beautiful Sara from her lethargy, and she realized at once that all which her husband had told her was not a mere dream.